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In an innovative cultural history of Argentine movies and radio in the decades before Peronism, Matthew B. Karush demonstrates that competition with jazz and Hollywood cinema shaped Argentina's domestic cultural production in crucial ways, as Argentine producers tried to elevate their offerings to appeal to consumers seduced by North American modernity. At the same time, the transnational marketplace encouraged these producers to compete by marketing "authentic" Argentine culture. Domestic filmmakers, radio and recording entrepreneurs, lyricists, musicians, actors, and screenwriters borrowed heavily from a rich tradition of popular melodrama. Although the resulting mass culture trafficked in conformism and consumerist titillation, it also disseminated versions of national identity that celebrated the virtue and dignity of the poor, while denigrating the wealthy as greedy and mean-spirited.
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Keywords
- Argentina
- Buenos Aires
- History
- History / Latin America
- History / Latin America / South America
- Juan Perón
- KUnlatched
- Media culture
- Melodrama
- Motion pictures
- Peronism
- Popular culture
- Radio broadcasting
- Social classes
- Working class
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DOI: 10.1215/9780822395331Editions
